Blue DAs have been releasing arrested rioters and refusing to enforce penalties despite violations, neutering the purpose of police. Urbanites' limp-wristed erring on the side of gentle compassion is the opposite of Singapore's harshness where they don't have our level of riots.
If "peaceful protesters" in hoodies and masks feel they're being victimized (incorrectly accused of crimes they didn't commit due to mistaken identity), then opaque face coverings can be banned, w/ only transparent materials allowed.
Amnesty Int'l complains about Singaporean standards but that nation's stringently merit-based gov't and judiciary have helped make Singapore one of the wealthiest and medically healthiest markets on the planet.
Both of the cited Singapore cases were appealed.
As a result Michael's sentence was reduced from 6 to 4 caning strokes, but Oliver Fricker (Swiss) wound up with his jail sentence increased.
George W. Bush was a cucked Christian, but Hollywood also called him "Hitler."
It's their default, reflex programming, as they treat libs like Obama as a Messiah.
Singapore handles vandalism by caning the perpetrators.
In 1994 a bratty American teen living there with his mother, thought it would be fun to steal road signs. The gov't decided punishment was to be stripped naked, bound over a trestle, and whipped across the buttocks by martial arts professionals using a wooden cane with enough force to rip flesh.
Michael Fay was his name, and while the New York Times, LA Times and Washington Post condemned his punishment, a poll of 23,000 Americans found a majority approved of his caning and of this tactic being adapted in the U.S. as an acceptable deterrent to crime.
Singapore doesn't merely use caning against teenagers - in 2010 a 32-year-old Swiss IT consultant was whipped 3x and jailed for 7 months for spray-painting a Singaporean train.
That peek last week wasn't the actual trailer. It was a TEASER, for the actual trailer scheduled next Weds (Aug 26th)
Isn't the point of Gulag his personal experience and POV? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born Dec. 1918 = AFTER the Bolshie takeover.
"Bush was NO conservative"
Conservatives know that to be true, however Bush DID claim to be a conservative, as did his neocon allies, so the media and Leftists were plenty eager to taint W as one. W tried to slither his way to supposed superiority by demonstrating big gov't "Compassionate Conservatism" turning Iraq into a butcher zone. Trump never bothered to try to shape himself to such an arbitrary label b/c so many RINOs had already rendered the claim hollow.
When Andrew Breitbart was still alive he warned conservatives not to fall for Trump's snake oil charms, but ironically Donald has hewed closer to the Constitution and the Founders' ideological principles than most of the "CONservative" fakers. To me Andrew's bias was ironic b/c he was assuming/interpreting Donald's Democrat flirtations at face value, ignoring the fact that Donald considered Reagan too weak, and that Andrew had himself been a former Leftist.
"Conservatives live by it"
RARELY. Bush talked about while campaigning, ignored it after Election Day.
Ron and Rand Paul believe enough to walk the walk.
Most RINOs are too much like Justin Amash = as selfishly situational as Dems who ignore their Oaths 99% of the time, preferring to sell their "principles" to the highest donor to secure power now and influence in the future.
No but I understand your dilemma - that IS a weird-shaped photo which doesn't look like a normal ballcap.
And no alternate angles to help choose !
Absolutely agree.
Anyone creating a headline here is just as prone as MSM to use slang abbreviations to quickly communicate a point.
2 wrongs =/= right.
Putting anything in quotation marks is the traditional way of stating that those words are an actual quote, but as you pointed out the article provides zero evidence [the headline words] were ever uttered by Donna.
FAKE NEWS
In a 1980 Playboy interview John disagreed: "I’m a most religious fellow [...] certainly not an atheist [...] I worked for money and I wanted to be rich [...] Money itself isn’t the root of all evil."
NYC neighbors said that during his final years John enjoyed chatting w/ local Marxist college students b/c he could easily debunk flaws in their utopian delusions, recognizing naivete from his former ideals that real-life experience had exposed as absurd.
He admired Reagan.
John rejected evolution as "absolute garbage”, and when a Beatles reunion was suggested as a charity fundraiser he refused the idea as a feel-good delusion that would only emotionally benefit the participants' egos while the supposed beneficiaries' long-term problems would still exist after the temporary band-aid. This is the same reason John dismissed America's noble sense of foreign aid as a foolish waste thrown away. SOURCE? A full-length, unedited compilation of these 3-weeks-long interview sessions is contained in David Sheff's 20th anniversary (2000) book "All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono."
"were" as in past tense.
Older John unashamedly scoffed at how delusional his younger self had been.
Lennon enjoyed the perks of success openly, and scoffed when someone suggested a Beatles charity-fundraiser reunion, b/c as with America's "foreign aid," no matter how much $$$ was poured into a problem with noble good intentions, John believed do-gooder-ism would never more be more than a momentary band-aid that accomplished little more than making the participants feel good about themselves that somehow they were saving the world.
John later shrugged off Imagine's impact, saying he knew when they were making it is was a guaranteed huge money-maker tapping into the cultural zeitgeist, and that people who interpreted it as sacred were delusional.
Neighbors in NYC said he'd chat w/ college Marxists debunking their claims w/ amusement, b/c John recognized inherent flaws in their utopian ideology, many of which he himself had previously flirted with until he learned via experience were not realistic.
Twisted Thomas Vigliarolo's testicles with a pair of pliers.
She hoped to get $9,000 from her share of the profits, to pay for a photo portfolio so she could become a model.
That kind of behavior doesn't just happen spontaneously.
If they'd succeeded, had she wound up enjoying traveling to future client advertising shoots, getting glammed up by costumers and hair / makeup artists, she'd have to treat her mental compartmentalization like an ice-cold vise grip to not remember the bloody sodomy and murder that financed an eventual modeling career.
There's no background check involved in joining here.
Anyone who uses a phrase like "The blacks" seems like someone who hasn't spend much time getting to know anybody.
We're individuals. We're all flawed, we're all prone to both behavior considered honorable, and behavior that's foolish obnoxiousness, as we learn to navigate in life, learning how to be better to improve ourselves and the surrounding world to help those we encounter and those who follow behind us later.
Any group of humans of any category, whether a family or a voluntary association or involuntary (such as ethnicity, geographic origin etc.) is going to have its own inevitable share of rotten selfish abusive scumbags, simply because human beings have been misbehaving throughout history.
True, person. My eats kerosene balloons! Many numbers Tetris half Xavier.
Wow, nice of the mayor to wear TDS rabies like a badge of honor, ignoring every constituent that doesn't spew DNC obedience.
If they want to fix the mess they claim is NOT a company-wide policy, then whoever was running the "One Team" session (responsible for the controversial slideshow) needs to be dealt with the same way RedBull told SJWs to get bent.
They've treating customers with contempt as if purchases are assumed, and been putting outsized emphasis on distractions unrelated to the priority of qualiy tires.
In a heavily Jewish district, both Loomer & Frankel are Jewish.
So it comes down to 2 ladies = Leftist vs. non-Leftist, globalist vs. nationalist.
Frankel is age 72 and voted for impeachment, is anti-2A, pro-surveillance.
Laura is the opposite (27), an ex-Project Veritas operative who can effectively offer an alternative to the norm, w/ incredibly energetic youthful drive to pound pavement every day as she talks to WPBers. She's smart, sharp and amazingly ballsy.
Yes, it's an uphill battle. But it's also like a female David vs. Goliath fable, or Little Mermaid vs. Ursula.
They even banned Laura from Uber, Lyft and Uber Eats.
Yeah, my mom coddled my sister (too much, preventing her ability to make decisions for herself) but kept me at a distance (fearful I'd wind up gay otherwise), then on the rare occasions she would let me near it would only be to play humiliating pranks as she laughed, taunted, and teased. F-d up. Like a little girl (with a playing-with-baby-dolls mindset) inside the body of a woman, exploiting real human beings (her kids) as if we were objects for her mercurial whimsical purposes. As you said about your father, our dad did all the actual parenting.
"withholding me from starting school when I was ready. [...] No wonder I got tormented daily for being different pretty much my entire life. No wonder I got along with the kids in the grade above me more than in mine."
I had the opposite version which was still bad = pushed into school a year early, so as my family moved around the country, I was always the youngest in my class (new kid w/ the highest academic grades) so each time I was fresh-meat target for bullies, while I got along better with younger, lower-level classes who admired me as an achiever (which I never asked for or chose).
My point in saying this, comparing our mutual lots, "the grass always seems greener on the other side," and as Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."
One way we can benefit others, is that our experiences have enabled us to empathize, treating others' vulnerable hurts with compassion and encouragement, which the Left only pretends to do in order to exploit advantages for selfish power-grabs.
That is part of what led to the creation of American police and prisons.
During frontier life in the wilderness, vigilantism was normal.
Due to erratic and arbitrary "justice" (willingness of some "no mercy" citizens to savage their targeted criminals in vengeance and pro-active "crime prevention"), tax money got allotted to hiring sheriffs, wardens etc. to separate the belligerent unlawful riffraff from their peace-at-any-cost neighbors.